Poetry News:
- — ‘Book of hours’ has rare female voice —
- — Avant-garde cockney slammed for slang that doesn’t rhyme —
- — Suggested blog topic: The Career Poet and How to Make Money & Influence People —
- — Job: Associate Editor/Staff Writer - St. Louis Cardinals (St. Louis, MO) —
- — Editor and translator Cor van den Heuvel is a haiku aficionado whose single-image poems capture moments from my own baseball-centered childhood —
- — North Jersey also gives Kleinzahler his other great subject: American masculinity, the qualities we attribute to tough guys and men —
- — As Memorial Day nears, James Winn lauds these works of war poetry —
- — Ancient poem found on wood strip —
- — So how much Morse, in iambic pentameters or otherwise, is out there? —
Trouble And Honey (I capped the “and” in the title because I thought it looked better, with that font I used haha.) results:
It’s been just over a week since the blog post that announced the availability of my book. There are just under 300 readers of this blog’s feed (296, according to Feedburner) plus 100-200 actual-human-being-visitors per day, so there are about 400 to 500 regular readers of Poetry Hut Blog every day. The blog tends toward the higher traffic when something negative is going on - scandal, death, po-biz in-fighting, etc.
400 people = daily readership (-ish)
83 downloads of free PDF version of Trouble And Honey = about 20% of readership (or the inverse = 80% were uninterested)
5 individuals donated via PayPal = (6% of 83 downloads; 1.25% of readership) This is better than the .06% that was recently referenced in the NYT, though my sample is way smaller. [link found in the techdirt rss feed thank you]
(Glass is half-empty: 98.75% of readership and 94% of downloaders did not donate.)
13 individual *orders* at Lulu.com = 3.25% of readership or 15.6% of downloaders (though some of the orders were for multiple copies — for example, someone bought 5 at once, maybe a sibling — Lulu.com doesn’t specify who the purchasers are BTW)
So there you have it. 
Check my math (muscle relaxants LOL).
Thank you & also, Americans, have a nice holiday tomorrow. I’ll be thinking about those who took an oath to defend the US Constitution.
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